Welcome on my personal website.

My name is Johan Bourtembour, better known as SFkilla. I am a computer enthusiast that loves developing and designing applications, sidebar gadgets and websites as a hobby.

I decided to stop The Hobby Lounge for various reasons, mainly due to time consuming, host and server problems, a lack of people participating in the community etc... Closing down a 100000 member community wasn't easy at all, THL was an amazing experience for many years but it was time for me to move over to other projects.

I wanted to thank every developer and designer from THL for their contribution and all the others who still used THL recently.

My Sidebar Gadgets...

The Multi Meter is one of my first gadgets that really motivated me to start & continue developing Vista Sidebar gadgets.

The motivation to develop & design has been growing ever since i put my hands on a Windows Longhorn beta build,

also due to the very nice comments i usually get from a worldwide audience

It definitely makes me happy.

Photoshop is a software that i have used in the past, many years ago, i found it precise and professional for pro's only... Since CS2, it has changed and, definitely in a good way. CS3 is the real tool for any designer or photographer or normal person (like me)

Since Windows Vista and its new Aero interface, i really found the inspiration of designing and developing more and more, CS3 is untill now, the best software i have ever used. Most of the time, i just need to open photoshop, open a new layer, put a background color, draw a shape and there you go, i can be gone for hours... its so much fun and never the same.

At the end ...the bottom line is that Photoshop CS3 is the best, most full-featured image-editing program available for photographers and designers.

The Hobby Lounge was a Microsoft acclaimed gadget development center and community where thousands of enthusiasts gathered to discuss and download the latest Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets from our developers.                                                                                                                                                                           

It became time to move onto a Virtual Private Server to handle the traffic that was streaming to and from the website.
www.thehobbylounge.com became THL's new home.

Since then, THL has attracted over 90 thousand members, and has generated millions and millions of page views.
Today THL is closed, since i decided to stop it but i will continue to share my work on this place.

My Present System

Mainboard:               Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4
Processor:                AMD Phenom II X3 720BE (Unlocked X4 3.4GHz - 1.375V)
Cooler:                    OCZ Vendetta 2 + Artic Cooling MX2
Graphics:                 ATI Sapphire Radeon 4890 1Go DDR5
Memory:                 G.Skill 4Go DDR2 800 (12-4-4-4)
Hard Drives:            Seagate 7200.12 500GB 32M SATAII
                              Western Digital AAKS 500GB 16M SATAII
                              Seagate 7200.10 160GB 8M SATAII
Power Supply:         Enermax Liberty 620W Modular
Case:                      Chenbro SR105 Black / Casetek CK-1018-2A
Screen:                    LG Flatron W2261V (1920x1080)